Hi, Jim:
Thanks, that works great.
Please explain:
\( is the left parenthesis escaped (?)
'-f' is 'output only these fields'
what does the '2' of '-f2' do?
chuck
Jim Reimer wrote:
>
> how 'bout
>
> cut -d\( -f2
>
> -jdr-
>
> Chuck Gelm wrote:
> >
> > Howdy, Y'all:
> >
> > Using 'grep' I've parsed some stdout to lines ending in
> > ...(123.45.67.89):
> > How can I either:
> > extract the last 17 characters
> > all characters after the first "("
> > all characters from "(" to ")"
> > ?
> >
> > I tried
> > cut -c ".0123456789" filename.txt
> > but it returns
> > cut: invalid byte or field list.
> > :-|
> >
> > Regards, Chuck
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